Author Archives: Wendy Wilson

An Editors Work Is Never Done Still editing. Well, maybe not editing in the classic sense anymore. It’s more sewing together a garment that has been ripped at the seams, copied in a different fabric and then sewn back together in that new fabric. Bound to be some gaps and missing stiches. After editing inContinue reading “Editing Is Never Really Done”

How Many Times Can You Look Over A Document Not sure. But for me half a dozen times checking my manuscript cover page apparently isn’t enough. I was checking it yet again this morning and found a mistake. I’d written my phone number wrong! Now, I’m sure if a mentor decided she wanted to mentorContinue reading “How Many Times…”

Pitching In Pitchwars I’ve been busy the past few weeks taking my middle grade book Arista Doyle and the Secret of the Bees through the editing wringer called AutoCrit. So many mistakes I made! Hopefully I fixed them all. Grammar, spelling basics done. Strong writing, show vs tell, over use of certain words; all thatContinue reading “Pitching in Pitch Wars”

How To Raise Your Heartrate I just had one of the scariest 10 minutes I have ever had since I started writing and submitting my work 20 years ago. For those who don’t know, PitchWars is an online event where writers are able to send a sample of their book to mentors. These mentors thenContinue reading “Ways to Raise Your Heart Rate”

Writing In The Time Of Covid In this era of shelter at home and mask wearing Covid, we feel lost, not sure what to do or how to do it. We can’t simply drive to be with our friends and family. Former activities like getting together with a writing group at the local book storeContinue reading “Writing In The Era of Covid”

Focusing On Arista I joined an online editing class and decided to use Arista Doyle And The Secret Of The Bees for practice. Learned a lot and applied the lessons to the manuscript. Improvements were made. Now I am kicking around the idea of getting a developmental editor. Arista started out 20 years ago asContinue reading “Focusing on Arista”

Marketing I’m currently working on marketing my book in preparation for the release of my sequel to Eternal Diet, currently titled “You Are What You Eat.” Not sure if that’s gonna be the published title but it does sum up the book. Vampires take their nutrition directly from living bodies so what those bodies haveContinue reading “Marketing”

Beginnings Has Begun I’ve begun the character study and outline for my third Eternal Diet book. Tentatively titled “Beginnings.” It’s gonna be a Colin story. Wish me luck in my research. I usually write ‘by the seat of my pants’ or as I and my fellow authors like to say “discovery’ writer. I didn’t useContinue reading “Beginnings Has Begun”

Progress I’ve finished editing You Are What You Eat and sent them back to editor for review. Fingers crossed. My short story Night Marchers was accepted into an anthology of Paranormal stories due out in Oct. It’s the first publication and there is not title yet. I’ll left everyone know. Just sent another paranormal/ghost storyContinue reading “Progress”

Closing In On The End Of Editing Only a few pages left to edit. My editor sent me suggestions and I’m going through accepting, changing and adding stuff. These last few pages will probably take the longest as they are an emotional couple of scenes. Gwen has had to kill an old friend and itContinue reading “Closing in on the end of You Are What You Eat”